John Bruce and his wife Mary Smith migrated to VA from Edinburgh, Scotland, in about 1760 and settled in Culpeper Co., VA. Their children were James, John, William, Robert, Benjamin, Elizabeth, Margaret, and Mary. In about 1792 the family moved to Wilkes Co., NC, where John, Benjamin, and Mary died. In about 1795 the family, along with the children of those who died in Wilkes Co., moved to Sumner Co., TN. Members of these families migrated on to Mississippi and Illinois as well as to Bedford Co., Tennessee. Some descendants of William Bruce and James Bruce remained in Sumner County until the late 1890s and early 1900s. Along with their Perry cousins, some went of Coal County, Indian Territory, Oklahoma, some to Adair County, Missouri, and some to Douglass County, Wisconsin. There were other Bruce families in Sumner County beginning in the 1790s, but I don't have any information about their migrations. They disappear from the county census after 1880. I would appreciate any help available in learning more about these descendants. Joyce